Also in nineteen forty-two, the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra asked eighteen composers to write music expressing love for America.

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He wrote "Symphony Number Two, the Age of Anxiety" in nineteen forty-nine when he was about thirty.

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The famous conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, learned about Copland's music.

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David Teie is a cellist in the National Symphony in Washington,D.C.

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Another,Heinz Hall, is where the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs.

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She won it for her Symphony Number One.

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She also began performing with symphony orchestras.

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The music in others' ears my symphony.

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The National Symphony Orchestra performs there.

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The orchestra was formed in 1885 by some of the Boston Symphony's early benefactors, who were looking to expand the orchestra's appeal by playing popular music.

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"But that happens. That's part of the deal." Arthur Fiedler was a 35-year-old viola player in the Boston Symphony when he was hired to conduct the Pops in 1930.

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to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti. In May,Jon will appear with the National Symphony Orchestra and special guest Tito Puente,Jr., at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington,D.C.

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In fact,when the city's Symphony Hall was built in 1900, one of its principal features was an elevator in the center of the auditorium, so the seats could be removed and tables put in their place.

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